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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My friends and I used to quote it incessantly! Funny. I was in the Navy and didn't see the movie when it came out, but I had a cassette tape of "The Album of The Soundtrack of The Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and The Holy Grail", which is the album they sold as comedy, and I listened to it a lot! But I missed all the visual stuff, and they added in things on the album that weren't in the movie, which made it even funnier to me! I didn't see the movie until VHS became a thing and I could rent it!

On a side note, back in the Nineties, my brother and his wife took ten kids (ten!!!) into their small two room in house apartment on my parents house and raised them for over a year. It was a sad thing, My brother's sister-in-law wasn't really competent to raise all those kids, and the Greek guy who impregnated her took off with all their money and went back to Greece, never to be seen again. The house and the kids (all with completely Greek names like Socrates and such) were in a sorry state, and Child Protective Services were going to put them in a foster home so my brother and wife took them in. They ranged from about four years old up to 14 IIRC at the time.

All boys, too.

An amazing act, in my eyes.

Anyway, I was visting one day, and looking out the second story window at the kids, all of them running around doing strange things and singing in unison (poorly) something, and I couldn't quite make out what it was.

They had their arms fully extended, spinning around in place, running to and fro, and it looked vaguely familiar...then it hit me.

They were ALL doing this!!!!

Now, this was more than 20 years after the film was released! It made me suspect there was something in the movie that appealed particularly to little boys!

2 posted on 04/09/2025 5:42:41 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

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between our quests, we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.


4 posted on 04/09/2025 5:47:51 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: rlmorel

here is a bit of an old man’s insight.

Young men if you find a girl who actually believes Monty Python is funny, she is likely an amazing candidate for marriage.


5 posted on 04/09/2025 5:49:31 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: rlmorel

Peasant: Who’s that then?
Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king.
Peasant: Why?
Dead Collector: He hasn’t got shit all over him.


15 posted on 04/09/2025 6:00:38 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: rlmorel
It made me suspect there was something in the movie that appealed particularly to little boys!

Castle Anthrax certainly appeals to little boys. Please, let me stay and FACE the peril!!!

39 posted on 04/09/2025 6:35:33 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: rlmorel
It made me suspect there was something in the movie that appealed particularly to little boys!

I introduced my grandson to Monty Python & The Holy Grail when he was about 10 years old. He’s close to 30 now, and still can quote it word for word. (I created a monster ;~)

65 posted on 04/09/2025 7:47:36 AM PDT by Ditto
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